19th Century Movies

This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Based on the novel by Josip Jurcic and set in rural Yugoslavia in the 1840's. The tenth brother of a family returns to the family home to take...

The true story of a boy hero during the last fighting before the fall of the Roman Republic before the 1849 birth of the Italian Republic.

Formerly lost film rediscovered in 1996, directed by William Friese-Greene.

Three young orphans team up with the Frankenstein Monster to battle a Wolfman in their small mountain community.

Based on the 19th century battle when 12,000 Afghans attacked a British Indian Contingent, also comprised of 21 Sikhs who went on to become the...

Two toddlers sit for the camera in their best clothing. One is determined to take toys and objects from the other until the other toddler starts to...

From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Birt Acres' work 'A Corner of Barnet Fair' which is...

Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art...

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.